The Menu
The wonderful team at the Raasay House has created themed meals for each day of the week, with a little collaboration from us. We tried to keep everyone in mind while also making an interesting, varied and delicious menu. Yes, we love good food and are excited to share some with all of you! All but the wedding dinner will be served family style, so you can try anything and everything. However, to help the kitchen prepare the right amount of each food, we need an idea of how many people are excited (or not) about eating what, and who needs a backup option.
Please have a look at each day and let us know your preferences by clicking the RSVP buttons for each day. If you don't see anything you think you'll like, let us know that as well.
Monday Dinner
Chef's Note: "A welcoming buffet offering a sample of nourishing Scottish recipes and locally sourced products. Guests can easily transport their selection to their own rooms." The goal was to create a varied and flexible buffet style dinner to appease the various responses of the jet-lagged stomachs, from "ravenous" to "just a nibble here and there."
Soup:
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Cullin Skink
(a Scottish chowder made with smoked Haddock)
Warm Savories:
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Venison & haggis scotch eggs
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Smoked mackerel tartines
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Aberdeen Angus beef & Skye ale pies
Cold Savories:
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Scottish charcuterie & cheeses (sourced from Great Glen charcuterie, Letterfinlay smokehouse, Connage Highland dairy, Highland Fine cheeses) served with seasonal fruit, nuts, pickles & olives
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Chutneys, fruit preserves, heather honey, oatcakes & crackers sourced from small local producers
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Raasay walled garden offerings (leafy salads, vegetable crudites & herb based dips)
Sweeter Nibbles:
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Scottish tablet & shortbread
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Fruit salad (reportedly good for jet-lag)
Tuesday -
Dinner - Fire Feast
Dinner will be served family style, so you can give anything and everything a try.
Appetizer Choices:
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Burnt aubergines, pomegranate & coriander dip served with warm flatbreads.
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Sweetcorn cream, green goddess chopped salad & tortilla chips
Main Choices:
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Scottish beef & lamb belly kebabs, pickled red onion & fresh tomato served with pita bread
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Grilled fresh mackerel served with floured rolls, romesco sauce, dill & cucumber pickles
Side Choices:
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Woodfired cauliflower, chickpeas & salsa verde
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Baby potatoes, seaweed pesto & chili
Dessert:
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Warm seasonal fruit crumble with warm vanilla custard and ice cream
After Dinner Music Enhancing Treat:
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Hot Chocolate
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"Adults Only" Hot Chocolate
Wednesday
Dinner -Comfort Foods
Some low-key, warming choices to get us in the mood to sit back, relax and enjoy storytelling time.
Appetizer:
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Roast pepper & tomato soup served with cheese toasties
Main Choices:
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Venison & beef chilli, sour cream, grated cheese
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Lobster mac & cheese
Sides:
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Stir-fry broccoli, chilli & ginger
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Lobster rolls
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Buttered potato scones
Dessert:
Raasay House Eton Mess
(Jeremy's favorite - meringue, fruit, whipped cream)
Wedding Dinner!
Your choices have been noted!
So excited to share this time with all of you!
Friday
Burns' Night Dinner
Robert Burns, the beloved Scottish poet, is celebrated yearly with a traditional supper, speeches and poetry. Yes, it involves haggis.
No, haggis is not to be feared, it's just sausage.
Starter:
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Cock-a-leekie & Bannocks Soup
(aka Chicken Soup)
Main Choices:
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Pan roast chicken supremes with Raasay whisky sauce
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Haggis
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Vegetarian Haggis
Sides:
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Neeps & Tatties
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Walled garden salad
Dessert Choices:
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Traditional Cranachan (contains a nip o' whisky)
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Non-Alcoholic Cranachan
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Scottish cheese board & oatcakes (crackers)
Saturday
Bollywood Dinner
This menu is both in celebration of Scotland's love of curries and to keep with the Bollywood flavor of the night. Served buffet style.
Special Drink Choices:
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Mango Lassi
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Passion Fruit Lassi
Possible Appetizers:
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Papadoms with chutnies & raita
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Onion bhaji
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Cauliflower fritter
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Lamb kebabs
Probable Main Choices:
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Chicken Passanda (mild)
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Chef's Special (likely to be fish-based and medium-mild)
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Chicken Tikka Balti (medium)
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Lamb Rogan Josh (medium-hot)
Possible Sides:
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Aloo Gobi
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Saag Paneer
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Chana Massala
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Coconut Rice
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Vegetable Pilau
Dessert:
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It's a surprise
Sunday
Dinner - Sunday Roasts
Traditional, crowd pleasing and a lovely way to end our this event together.
Starters:
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Olives, sourdough bread & salted butter
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Orkney sweet cured herrings, dill & lemon
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Scottish smoked ham hough terrine & pickles
Main Choices:
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Slow-roasted Scotch Lamb shoulder
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Rosemary & garlic roasted chicken, Arran mustard sauce
Sides:
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Yorkshire puddings (pastry)
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Creamed kale
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Honey roasted carrots & parsnips
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Goose fat roasties
Dessert:
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Sunday Sundaes
Daily Lunch Options
Obviously this will depend on where you are going to be and what you are going to be doing. And no worries, if your plans change, so can your lunch location, we are just trying to get an idea of what to tell the kitchen
Location Options:
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Light lunch at the Raasay House
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Bagged lunch (sandwich choices) somewhere afield
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On your own at a pub or foraging as you will
